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Who would have thought friendship would be so difficult once you leave your cozy college campus when you can catch up with friends on the way to class or in the dining hall over a cup of Jo. Now, like everything else in life, friendships require work and effort, sometimes even therapy (if you’re like…

“Isn’t personal conversation with girlfriends a good thing?” asks Washington Post Staff Writer Laura Sessions Stepp in a past story, “Enough Talk, Already.” Yes and no. This is what she found out: Social scientists are realizing that while talking may strengthen female friendships and leave pals feeling temporarily better, it can also lead to increased…

Dear God, I have to be honest. I understood this week’s gospel about as well as I comprehended Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” and Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” back in college, so I’m grasping at literary themes much like an engineering major thrown into English Lit 101. This part I get: a woman can’t keep her husband happy.…

I really like what my friend James from “Finding Optimism” wrote on the message board of my post, “Marriage Is a Discipline,” regarding how to effectively keep his spouse around: My wife and I have been married for 13 years. The foundation of our marriage has always been a commitment to the promises we made…

I joked about the woman in the gospel being bipolar only because I can’t imagine the patience it takes to live with a manic-depression. Anna Bishop, James’s wife (from “Finding Optimism“) has written five outstanding posts on what it’s like to be a passenger on the roller coaster ride of a marriage in which one…

I just wanted to thank each and every veteran on this Veteran’s Day for all their service to this country. And I also wanted to say those veterans suffering from mental illnesses–and there are many of them–are surely in my prayers.

This week, for Beyond Blue’s series, “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” I am interviewing John D., who is a fellow mental-health blogger. His site, “Storied Mind,” is full of insights on a variety of topics: anger, tears, marriage, workplace issues, and more. Once I had landed on his pages, I couldn’t stop reading. One…

John’s post, “The Longing to Leave,” is one of the most insightful pieces I’ve ever read about how depression can really mess up a marriage. Because when a person plummets into a depression, his first reaction is to look around himself–at those things that are standing in front of him (wife, boss, kids)–and to blame…

Another blog post I read with interest was John’s piece about how his depression affects his work performance. I’ve wanted to talk about that more on Beyond Blue, but frankly that’s more difficult for me to expose to readers than how often I have sex in a week. I guess that give you some indication…

I have a few more people in mind to interview for Beyond Blue’s “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” series. That should take me through the year. In January, though, I’m wondering if I should shake it up a bit–maybe do the interviews every other week or once a month. I was thinking of throwing…
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